African American Love Quotes

Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.

I am the dream and the hope of the slave

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in ‘We, the people.’

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.